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The official Qantas Twitter account. Member of the oneworld Alliance. House Rules: https://t.co/zEbTr0LbZv
Australia
Joined November 2010
Our competitors don't normally ask us for advice, but when an airline leader reached out, we couldn't ignore it. Naturally, there was only one way to respond: CEO to CEO.
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Farewell, #Queenoftheskies✈️Today, the last 747 in our fleet, VH-OEJ departed Australia for the final time – adding a special display en roo-te to the US🦘#747farewell
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Today, our first ultra long haul #QantasResearchFlight has set off from #NewYork direct to #Sydney flying 50 people more than 16,200 km on a #QantasDreamliner. Read all the fast facts here:
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Remember the 10-year-old CEO who started his own airline?. We said we’d host him and his fellow executives at Qantas for a historic aviation summit. And we weren’t joking.
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Our very first #QantasResearchFlight has arrived at Sydney Airport with a total flight time of 19 hours and 16 minutes.
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We’re extremely excited to announce an order for our new domestic fleet as well as 12 A350-1000s, an aircraft designed to redefine the way we travel with the ability to fly non-stop from Australia to anywhere in the world.
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Introducing our first ever QantasLink @Airbus A220, fresh out of the paint shop 🎨. The aircraft is set to arrive in Australia before the end of the year and is the first of 29 A220s coming to the Qantas Group as part of its domestic fleet renewal program. The next-generation
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Here at Qantas, we are proud to support Australian Marriage Equality 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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#QF7879 is about to take-off on its nonstop #ProjectSunrise research flight from #London to #Sydney with 52 pax, 6 crew and 4 flight crew commanded by Capt Helen Trenerry. Get live updates from the cockpit here and follow the 17,750km journey @flightradar24. #QFnonstop
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#ProjectSunrise update: We’ve selected the Airbus A350-1000 as our preferred aircraft for our plans to fly non-stop from the east coast of Australia to #London and #NewYork. Read more here:
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Say hello to our first @Airbus A321XLR! 😍. The aircraft has now progressed to the final assembly line at Airbus' Finkenwerder production facility in Hamburg, Germany ahead of its scheduled delivery in April 2025. Our first A321XLR will sport the rego VH-OGA and will be named
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Taking off into 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ 🛫. Happy New Year! 🥳🎉🎊. 📸: IG/pontian69
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We've taken off. This is the voice of Capt Helen Trenerry. Listen to her PA. @flightradar24 #QF7879 #QFnonstop
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QF10 has left London's Heathrow Airport on its way non-stop to Australia ✈️
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After more than 700 days, Australia is once again open to the world 🌏🛬. Today we welcomed back the first international tourists into the country in almost two years!. 🔉 @AirservicesNews
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Today we say goodbye to our final 747 VH-OEJ as it departs Sydney for the last time. #QF7474 will taxi past Shep’s Mound & receive a water canon salute, before taking off just after 2pm, completing a special lap of honour over Sydney & surrounds. Watch it live on @flightradar24.
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100 years ago today, Qantas began from the remote dust of outback Australia. This is our story.
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Our brand new QantasLink A220 has completed its first test flight, taking off from @Airbus' production site in Mirabel, Canada today. The aircraft, registered VH-X4A, took to the skies for almost three hours, with Airbus test pilots carrying out a number of standard checks of
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Good afternoon, Sydney!. For those out and about around the Harbour today, you may see one of our A380s flying lower than normal around the city. This is to capture some air-to-air footage with our super jumbo aircraft. For those who want to track the flight and get some 📸,
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What a sight! Our first A380 (Hudson Fysh) is back on Australian shores.
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Someday is almost here. International travel between Sydney, London & Los Angeles resumes tomorrow! ✈️
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Our 10th #QantasDreamliner has been unveiled featuring a special livery. What are your thoughts?
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Time to start packing. Flights between Sydney and Los Angeles and London are now taking off from 1 November. Someday is even closer. Who are you reuniting with?.
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Severe storms forecast in Sydney late this afternoon to impact flights. Qantas will use an Airbus A380 from Melbourne to Sydney to help get customers on their way. More information:
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Today we’ve unveiled the entire cabin design of our Airbus A350s that will fly direct from Sydney to New York and London from late 2025, as part of Project Sunrise.
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Real life ‘Love Actually’ 🥰 Beautiful scenes at Heathrow Airport when QF1 arrived in London, from Sydney via Darwin, last night.
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Follow QF 99 on @flightradar24 as we say goodbye to VH-OJU, a Boeing 747-400 delivered to us in 2000. She’s operated 90,000+ flight hours and flown over 70 million kilometres. We’re sad to see her go but her new owner will take care of her. We’ll reveal more later this week.
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A special backdrop for a special aircraft 🤩. We took our brand new @Airbus A220 ‘Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa’ to Uluṟu for Pitjantjatjara artist Maringka Baker to see her amazing artwork on the QantasLink A220 for the first time, surrounded by her family, friends & community. The
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A bet is a bet. Today we followed through with #AirlineWager and we accepted jerseys from @FlyAirNZ.
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Say hello to our newest @Airbus A220-300! 🐨. 'Koala' took to the skies for the first time in recent days and will arrive in Australia next week following the official handover from Airbus in Mirabel, Canada. The aircraft is the first of our A220 fleet to be named after native
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Fly High Olivia, thank you for the memories, you were always pure joy to our crew. Love always, team QF 💔. 📸 Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta at the A380 Inauguration in 2008.
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Flying Aussies home 🇦🇺..On behalf of the Australian Government, we will operate two non-stop flights between Larnaca, Cyprus and Sydney to help Australians in Lebanon return home free of charge. ..The flights will be operated using Qantas Boeing 787s and will be able to carry
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On QF93 this weekend, Qantas Pilot, Captain Dooley Ellis had an announcement for a very special passenger.
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We're embarking on three research flights to help plan how we care for passengers & crew on future long-haul flights. New #787Dreamliners will fly non-stop flights from #NYC & #London to #Sydney, fully carbon-offset with only 40 people onboard. Read more:
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Missing our A380’s? We hear you. Our engineers are taking great care of them during their down time in the Mojave desert while we wait for international travel demand to return to pre-COVID levels. VH-OQC recently flew from Victorville to LA to undergo a gear swing procedure.
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Touchdown. ✈️ Time saved compared to LHR-SIN-SYD service = 1hr 57 mins. Remaining fuel upon landing was approximately 6300kg which translates to about 1 hour 45 minutes of flight time. More info here avail here >> #QF7879 #QFnonstop.
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The first QantasLink @Airbus A220 commercial flights took to the skies today, operated by two brand new jets straight from the Airbus factory in Mirabel, Canada. VH-X4B, named ‘Koala’, operated the inaugural service QF1266 from Melbourne to Canberra, carrying passengers and
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We’ve listened to customer feedback, and in the coming weeks we will carry vegetarian meals and reintroduce fresh fruit on all our domestic services, including flights under 3.5 hours. Find out more here
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The third QantasLink @Airbus A220 has arrived in Australia! ✈️🇦🇺. VH-X4C touched down in Canberra on Tuesday afternoon and will enter service in the coming days. The aircraft is 'Little Red Flying-Fox', joining Koala in our A220 fleet to be named after Australian wildlife.
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A much-loved part of @Qantas’ history, today we salute the Queen of the Skies as @BoeingAirplanes delivers the last of its iconic jumbo jets. While the aircraft will still grace the skies for decades to come, today marks the end of an era for global aviation. #ThankYou747
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Europe just got a whole lot closer. Non-stop flights from Perth to London beginning March 2018. The first route for our Qantas Dreamliners.
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Something exciting is in the works for our 10th #QantasDreamliner, VH-ZNJ. Can you guess what special livery it will feature? ✨
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From First Officer Sam Kerr to @samkerr1 & @TheMatildas, wishing you all the best tonight in the knockout stages. Let's go Aussies! 🙌. #Tilitsdone #Matildas #AUS
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Watch the timelapse of our new QantasLink @Airbus A220 ‘Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa’ getting its very special paint job – the sixth aircraft to join our Flying Art Series with @balarinjidesign.
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Time to take off for Paris! 🇦🇺✈️🇫🇷 . We are so excited to be launching the first ever non-stop flights between Australia and the city of light 😍
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We're glad you like it, @troyesivan! There's always room on the Qantas #MardiGras float if you want to join us. 😌🌈🎉
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Thanks to everyone who has been sharing the Qantas Spirit and thank you to our customers for your kindness, patience and understanding. We’re all looking forward to flying with you again soon.
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Flight ASY1258 - operated by our Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner VH-ZNC on behalf of the Australian Government - has touched down in Sydney from Larnaca, Cyprus. The flight brought home 220 passengers to Australia, with the Flight and Cabin Crew (four pilots and ten cabin crew),
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Excited to welcome our first QantasLink A220, Minyama Kutjara Tjukurpa, to the family, with @Airbus officially handing over the keys to our newest aircraft. This weekend the aircraft will take-off on a four-leg ferry flight operating as QF6075 from Mirabel-Vancouver-Honolulu
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#QF7879 has touched down in #SYD non-stop from #LHR after 19 hrs, 19 min in flight, bringing our new #Qantas100 Dreamliner home on the eve of our 100th year.
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Hello Delhi! For the first time in almost a decade, we’re flying direct to India. Flights from Sydney to Delhi take off before Christmas.
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Our first QantasLink A220 ‘Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa’ has landed in Sydney ✈️ 🇦🇺
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"You're not getting a clap for that landing!". @TheMatildas @CaitlinFoord, @MaccaArnold1 & @AlannaKennedy swap the football pitch for a flight simulator 👩✈️. Who do you think did the best?
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Take a trip down memory lane - all the way back to the roaring 20s - in our nostalgic, new inflight safety video. #Qantas100. Find out more:
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Today, we turn 100. You make a lot of memories over 100 years & thanks to @IBMAustralia Power Systems AI technology, we’ve been able to share some of our earliest memories with you, in colour. Thanks to all of our employees & customers who have made the last 100 years possible.
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Thank you to our stunning #Gay380 crew and @courtneyact for another spectacular #SydneyMardiGras! See you next year!.
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London ✅.Rome ✅.New York ✅.Tokyo ✅.Paris 🔜*. *Commencing year-round non-stop flights between Perth and Paris from 12 July 2024 🇫🇷
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Pfizer vaccines winging their way to Australia! We are proud to support the government in the vaccine rollout which will help get us all back in the sky again. #teamaustralia #nationalcarrier @dfat @MarisePayne @GregHuntMP @ScottMorrisonMP
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QF9 is up and away! 🛫 . The first direct Perth to London flight in more than two years is winging its way to @HeathrowAirport.
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Our factory fresh #Dreamliner has taken off from #London as #QF7879 at a total weight of 230,920kg. Follow it on @flightradar24. #QFnonstop
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This week we made history with the world’s first zero waste flight. No plastic cutlery, no coffee cup lids, no unnecessary wrapping. Stay tuned. This is just the beginning. ♻️
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Our 10th #QantasDreamliner is about to roll out of the paint shop. Have you guessed what its special livery is in celebration of? (Hint: the aircraft will enter service in mid-November). All will be revealed tomorrow…
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We are excited to be relaunching our seasonal Sydney to Sapporo services, offering the only direct flights between Australia and the winter playground of Hokkaido 🇯🇵. The flights, which will commence in December 2025 and run through to March 2026* during Japan's world-famous ski
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Not one but two new international routes! We're flying non-stop from Sydney to Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷 and Sydney to Bengaluru (Bangalore), India 🇮🇳. Flights commence to Bengaluru from 14 Sept and Incheon from 10 Dec 2022 subject to government and regulatory approval.
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#QF7879 is operated by our newest Dreamliner, named ‘Longreach’. Right now, the flight path is taking the aircraft past its namesake – the outback Queensland town where Qantas had its origins, 99 years ago. #QFnonstop @flightradar24
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We raced our @Boeing 737 against a Tesla Model S to celebrate innovation and sustainability with @TeslaMotors.
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.@FlyAirNZ While black is slimming, we think it needs a golden touch. Something like this. #AirlineWager #NZLvAUS
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"Runway clear to land". Hear the exchange between air traffic control and the QF12 flight deck as we touched down in Sydney this morning. @AirservicesNews
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Our Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners are returning to Brisbane! . Today we announced a number of upcoming changes to our international schedule, which include:. ▪️ Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners to begin flying from Brisbane on Los Angeles & Auckland routes in August 2025. ▪️ Airbus A380 to
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This is a challenging day for our industry and we are sad to see Rex enter voluntary administration with the immediate suspension of its Boeing 737 operations. We know this will be a difficult period for many Rex customers and employees and we stand ready to assist. Rex.
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